One important activity of the league was the disposition of certain territories that had been colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire before World War I. Supervision of these territories was awarded to leaguemembers in the form of mandates.

During the league's 26 years, a total of 63 nations belonged at one time or another; 28 were members for the entire period (see accompanying table).

During the next two decades, American diplomats encouraged the league's activities and attended its meetings unofficially, but the United States never became a member.

The expenses of the League shall be borne by the Membersof the League in the proportion decided by the Assembly.

The Membersof the League undertake to interchange full and frank information as to the scale of their armaments, their military, naval and air programmes and the condition of such of their industries as are adaptable to war-like purposes.

The Council shall formulate and submit to the Membersof the League for adoption plans for the establishment of a Permanent Court of International Justice.

The present instrument shall be deposited in original in the archives of the LeagueofNations and certified copies shall be forwarded by the Secretary-General of the LeagueofNations to all membersof the League.

This law shall ensure equality of treatment in the matter of excavations and archaeological research to the nationals of all States Membersof the LeagueofNations.

The Mandatory shall make to the Council of the LeagueofNations an annual report to the satisfaction of the Council as to the measures taken during the year to carry out the provisions of the mandate.

Membership in the LeagueofNations is treated, in the reservations, with so little dignity and as of such slight importance as to authorize its termination by the passage of a mere concurrent resolution of Congress.

I entertain little doubt that sooner or later -- and entirely too soon -- the treaty will be ratified with the LeagueofNations in it; and I am of the opinion with the reservations in it as they are now written.

Suspicion and mistrust of the nations associated with this government in the recent war are reflected by the reservations, sometimes poorly concealed, often clearly evinced.

The EU is dismissed as a failure and its members as a thing of the past-including a population that is no longer compatible with the prevailing demographic trends in the United States.

National confusion in the United States over NATO enlargement and to an extent NATO itself, and in Europe over the future of the EU and to an extent the EU as well, does not result from the fact that there is no case to be made.

As the 15 member states prepared for the last round of IGC negotiations in the spring of 1997, the newly fragile German government of Helmut Kohl found it difficult to accomodate the new and newly skeptical French govern-ment led by Lionel Jospin.

The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Library, previously the LeagueofNations Library, was founded in 1919 and became the United Nations Library at Geneva when the Leagueâs assets were transferred to the United Nations in 1946.

The Library also plays a unique role in helping the world remember, and learn from, the efforts of the United Nations and the LeagueofNations.

The UNOG Library is part of a strong network of United Nations and UN system libraries, that share expertise, best practices and resources, and cooperate to ensure the best quality of products and services for their users.

The original membership of the League included the victorious Allies of World War I (with the exception of the United States, whose Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles) and most of the neutral nations.

One important activity of the league was the disposition of certain territories that had been colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire before World War I. Supervision of these territories was awarded to leaguemembers in the form of mandates.

During the league's 26 years, a total of 63 nations belonged at one time or another; 28 were members for the entire period (see accompanying table).

The plan formed the basis of the Covenant of the LeagueofNations, the 26 articles that served as operating rules for the league.

One of six principal components of the United Nations and the only one in which all UN members are represented.

The General Assembly decided in February 1946 to locate the permanent headquarters of the United Nations in the United States instead of in Geneva, Switzerland, where the LeagueofNations headquarters had been (see LeagueofNations).

The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership.

Although the LeagueofNations continued to hold annual sessions for the next three years, and despite talk among its membersof reforming the organization, after the Abyssinian affair the League was clearly ruined as an instrument of collective security.

From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: The LeagueofNations: The LeagueofNations

The founding of the LeagueofNations in 1919 marked a radical departure from previous methods of diplomacy.

The LeagueofNations was an association of states which had pledged themselves, through signing the Covenant not to go to war before submitting their disputes with each other, or states not membersof the League, to arbitration or enquiry.

The originals of the photos are held with the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Library, LeagueofNations Archives Sub-Unit and are its property.

The LeagueofNations was an international organization created after the First World War.

A second blow to the League came in 1933 when Hitler, having won power on a platform to restore German rights and lands taken away at Versailles, also walked out of the League, which had been established in part to enforce the terms of Versailles.

Created at the Paris Peace Conference, the Leagues Covenant was embedded in the text of the Versailles Treaty at the insistence of its great patron Woodrow Wilson.

When Hitler, in flagrant violation of Versailles, moved troops into the Rhineland in March 1936, the League talked but failed to act.

The league and its covenant were the ultimate expression of that vision, and President Wilson submitted the treaty to the Senate confident that he could persuade enough of its members to vote for ratification.

With the onset of the Second World War, the league had all but ceased to function, although it continued to officially exist until 1945 when its duties were formally usurped by the United Nations.

As a liberal thinker and a believer in internationalism, ER supported American entry into the LeagueofNations, though not with the degree of enthusiasm that the president would have liked.

States of which the seat of government is outside Europe will be entitled merely to inform the Secretariat of the LeagueofNations that their ratification has been given; in that case, they must transmit the instrument of ratification as soon as possible.

Those obligations shall be interpreted as obliging each of the signatory States to co-operate loyally and effectively in support of the Covenant of the LeagueofNations, and in resistance to any act of aggression, in the degree which its geographical position and its particular situation as regards armaments allow.

The deposit of ratifications shall be made at the Secretariat of the LeagueofNations as soon as possible.

In 1925, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge published The Senate and the LeagueofNations, which chronicled the Senate's consideration of the Treaty of Versailles.

Senator Lodge, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and de facto majority leader, was troubled by the peace treaty, taking particular exception to Article Ten of the League Covenant, which he and others felt required all Leaguemembers to come to the aid of any member state under attack.

One important activity of the league was the disposition of certain territories that had been colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire before World War I. Supervision of these territories was awarded to leaguemembers in the form of mandates.

The machinery of the league consisted of an assembly, a council, and a secretariat.

In the area of preserving peace, the league had some minor successes, including settlement of disputes between Finland and Sweden over the Åland Islands in 1921 and between Greece and Bulgaria over their mutual border in 1925.

Selwyn Pearson, the chairman of the New Zealand Rugby League, has been lobbying other membersof the International Federation who meet in Sydney next weekend.

The Rugby Football League is looking for a new marketing executive for the second time in as many years following the resignation of Chris Green, who had been criticised for failing to secure sponsorship for the new National League structure.

The west Leeds club folded in 1999 but are set to compete against a range of clubs from Carlisle to Croydon in the game's latest development vehicle.

Both clubs, which were foundation membersof the league in 1908, decided they could not stand alone and from next year will play as the Wests Tigers.

Four years ago, rugby league was split in two when Rupert Murdoch's News Limited, the Australian arm of the global group News Corp, attempted a takeover of the sport after his fledgling pay-TV station Foxtel missed out on broadcasting rights to rival channel Optus.

News Limited established the Super League competition with a combination of new clubs and those who defected from the establishment Australian Rugby League, while the ARL continued to run its own competition with the clubs who remained loyal.

He was the England coach in the 1995 rugby league World Cup final, he was on the losing side and he has said that the experience affected him profoundly.

The centre produced some of his finest rugby in a campaign that saw him become an integral part of an England side that lifted the RBS Six Nations Championship and completed a clean-sweep over the southern hemisphere teams both home and away.

After another outstanding season he was named as the Tigers Members Player of the Year 2001/2 and was a nominee for the Zurich Premiership Player of the Year.

One of the first comic book storylines I followed avidly was in Justice Leagueof America issues 166, 167, and 168, a pleasant romp in which the Secret Society of Super-Villains swaps bodies with five membersof the Justice League.

Just one example: the first part opens with a bit of denouement from the previous issue as the Justice League attends the funeral of Zatanna's mother, a whole lot of dancing and garland-throwing.

These are comics that reliably sacrifice plot and action for forced characterization, that spend more time dwelling on a ruminating android than they do illustrating the climactic beat-downs of the Justice League.